“Very disappointing.”
The public wants somebody to pay for this mess, and that person must be someone they can identify with.
As a performance it was at times compelling. But almost none of it was credible.
“I would urge people to carry on paying their license fee”: RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst asked if he will apologise to those convicted of refusing to “subsidise flip flops.” #gript #RTÉgate
Neither politicians, nor the public, should buy it.
RTÉ hidden payments
“Fraudulent accountancy practices”
“A gender pay gap does not indicate discrimination.”
‘Unprecedented intervention’
“Every devout Catholic should at this stage be boycotting RTE and refusing to renew your TV license,” Fr. Mulligan insisted.
The suspicion that RTE has been living “way beyond its means” and has been engaged in the provision of exorbitant rates of pay to its ‘top talent’ has moved from the realm of tentative speculation into that of clear fact. Indeed, such suspicions have a long and notable history. For example; in December 1966 the […]